Social Democratic Party of Georgia

The Social Democratic Party of Georgia was a Marxist party that was founded in the 1890s by Nikolay Chkeidze, Egnate Ninoshvili, and Noe Zhordania, among others. After 1905, most Georgians joined the Menshevik faction of politics in the Russian Empire, and it adopted social democracy as its ideology. From 1918 to 1921, the party governed the Democratic Republic of Georgia, which was destroyed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. The party was dissolved in exile in 1940.